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Ed Schrader's Music Beat, Máscaras, Cool Flowers

Sometimes a collaboration is exactly the sum of its parts. Such is the case with Riddles, the new album from Ed Schrader’s Music Beat, a Baltimore-based duo that’s carved out a niche in the underground with its weird, Suicide-style noise-rock. Apparently aching to push its sound into new places, the band invited Dan Deacon to dive deep into the third Music Beat album. Deacon—known for his experimental electro-pop and exhilarating live shows—spent two years working with Schrader’s gang, playing the role of co-writer, arranger, and producer. The result is Riddles, which essentially sounds like the wild-eyed post-punk of Ed Schrader’s Music Beat got hit by a bunch of Dan Deacon glitter bombs, with songs that are bigger, buzzier, grittier, and groovier than anything the band has done before.